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Corky

I wonder if Aunty has sparked her network into action. All of a sudden the media is full of prats suggesting Sir Ray may not be kosher. Sir Ray stated he has had to sack people and companies for excessive charging.

Sour grapes, or excessive marketing PR by Sir Ray? Probably both. However, he has now publicly locked himself into a production timetable that will hopefully settle all concerns.

Jay3

When opponents of the concert at Eden park realised they were on the wrong side of public opinion, they changed tack from lambasting the venue for not following proper consent processes (untrue), to personally attacking the CEO of Eden Park Trust and its board. After a poll was released showing an overwhelming 91% of Aucklanders supported the charity concert, they doubled down with the help of what looks like compliant journalists and mounted an attack on Avery and the charity itself. Every step of the way Helen Clark has been quoted in articles or made comments on Twitter in an extraordinarily vitriolic display of opposition. I think the UN may have dodged a bullet.

Ray

All straight out of the Hellen Clark handbook “Managing the Media”
I just wonder if she and her supporters think how this all looks to ordinary people?
I also wonder why she just doesn’t move into one of her other five houses if this noise is so threatening.

Corky

This clip is a classic example of where science is today. It has nothing to do with science per se, but does suggest you must do your research if you want to be informed. This clip is regarding bottled water. Pity they didn’t include real water like Wairwera and Kaimai Range sourced waters. Many obvious points were left out because what is considered good water , and what’s actually good water doesn’t cross the mind of the scientist interviewed. Or the Seven Sharp team for that matter.

David

Great news coming out of the US with Trump securing concessions from the EU on their unfair trade restrictions, Dow Jones up 150 points.
Trump and the art of the deal, he is having a great week what with the start of dismantling of Nth Korean nuclear sites..early days but lets see what happens.

Blazer

Blazer

Another very interesting ‘suicide’…so many people involved in ‘high finance’ jump out..windows.

‘I’d like to introduce you to Mrs. Louise Boyer, a very decent lady and a highly competent secretary. So competent, in fact, that she spent nearly three decades working as the personal secretary of one of the most powerful men in America, Governor Nelson Rockefeller.
From rubbing elbows with the high society of the world, to arranging his personal meetings with national and international leaders, coordinating his political events, or seeing to the details of his extensive travels, this was obviously an intelligent, capable, and steady lady.
At least, she was. Until she decided in the summer of 1974 to contact a New York newspaper and tell them that she was privy to explosive information regarding the Rockefeller family arranging with the Fed for large amounts of US gold to be sold and shipped to buyers in Europe, reportedly at the official price of $42.22/oz, while gold on the open market was selling for somewhere around $175/oz.
Three days after the publication of the article, Ms. Boyer was found dead, having “apparently” thrown herself through the windows of her tenth-story New York apartment and plunging to her death.’

Blazer

Blazer

‘Among a range of issues, the investigation highlighted the facts the LifePods did not yet have ISO certification as a medical device and production had not begun at scale.

It also raised questions over whether Avery should be leading the LifePods process, whether he’d been transparent enough, and whether any of the incubators would be actually produced soon after the concert.

Newsroom reported Avery acknowledging the one million target of babies to save was not exact, quoting him as saying: “When you’re doing marketing you pick some figures out of the air.”

Ray

The “real ” story seemed to based on disgruntled past workers and the fact that the pods are not certified. Which proves that they are still in the development stage and really do need money.
The quote p, if accurate, referred to the number of blind people helped but was twisted round by the reporter to make it more current.
We have seen this smearing technique before in those 9 long years of Miss Clark’s rule

Blazer

Blazer

Avery was on Checkpoint tonight making an ass of himself.Has raised $1.9 mil over the last 3.5 years and made 0 pods so far.One guy rang in who had donated 10k for 4 and was bristling.Mt Smart stadium is available but Ray had a pathetic excuse as to why it had to be Eden Pk.

sorethumb

I was setting the fire and I noticed an article on St Moritz Queenstown. The owner bought the land for $2m, the hotel was built for $16m and is now ensured for $64m. Business was slow initially but has been helped by the “influx of visitors”. Every cloud has a sliver lining.

sorethumb

That’s what I mean about Alt-Right and counter narrative Geeza. The Alt-Right aren’t Neo-Nazis (they wish). The Alt-Right are a set of ideas. A bit like a world series where the champs are only the champs because the opponents aren’t allowed to fight them.

Gezza

You are mixing Libertarians & Conservatives in with the Alt Right – imo, either thru igorance or perhaps trying to disguise some of your racist beliefs as somehow mainstream.

These are the “set of ideas” of the Alt Right:The alt-right, or alternative right, is a loosely-connected and somewhat ill-defined grouping of white supremacists/white nationalists, neo-Nazis, neo-fascists, neo-Confederates, Holocaust deniers, and other far-right fringe hate groups.

Alt-right beliefs have been described as isolationist, protectionist, antisemitic and white supremacist, frequently overlapping with neo-Nazism, identitarianism, nativism and Islamophobia, antifeminism, misogyny and homophobia, right-wing populism and the neoreactionary movement.

The concept has further been associated with several groups such as American nationalists, paleoconservatives, anarcho-capitalists, national-anarchists, paleolibertarians, Christian fundamentalists, neo-monarchists, men’s rights advocates and the 2016 presidential campaign of Donald Trump.
– Wikipedia

sorethumb

You are mixing Libertarians & Conservatives in with the Alt Right – imo, either thru igorance or perhaps trying to disguise some of your racist beliefs as somehow mainstream.
……..
Which “racist beliefs” do you refer to Gezza?

sorethumb

Gezza

Well if they looked up Wikipedia that’s understandable, although Molyneux probably fits the description more closely than she does from what I’ve heard of them both so far – which is enuf for me to want to hear from them for now, & to make my own judgement about them.

The problem she possibly has is that she’s touring with him, & he’s a creep, so they both get tarred with the same brush, particularly as they’re sharing a touring platform & seem to be accepting the implication they hold similar views, at least in respect of what they want to talk about (which I still don’t know).

I don’t think it bothers either of them how they’re described, as long as they get more hits and subscribers to their fame & fortune vehicles on YouTube. Notoriety is as good for gaining celebrity as philanthropy or altruism, probably better.

That’s not to say some of the issues they raise aren’t valid – they are. Hence why I have no ovjection to their coming here. But I wouldn’t give them a cent, personally.

Blazer

lurcher1948

To the rightwing lovers and donors who gave heaps to take Mayor Goff to court for the right of free speech im confused. In this instance it will be Jordan Williams’s owners prompting the Auckland Ratepayers’ Alliance (fronted by Jordan Williams), a fully owned subsidiary of the Taxpayers’ ‘Union’ (fronted by Jordan Williams), that will be pressing the bold fight by the Free Speech Coalition (fronted by Jordan Williams) to have the Auckland City Council spend some more of the ratepayers’ cash on this manufactroversy, at the end Jordon Williams has a heap of money that suckers donated and should be given to the Auckland CC to pay for the expense the Auckland ratepayers paid to lawyers OR IS IT ALRIGHT WHEN THE RIGHT DO IT .

Corky

PDB

Goff not only lies (about sacking a ‘leaker’ and about personally stopping the Canadian speakers) but staying true to his Labour roots he is found to be not very transparent & tries to hide information that doesn’t help his cause:

“Auckland mayor Phil Goff’s office has been stripped of its ability to influence the release of information following an investigation by the Chief Ombudsman.
Ombudsman Peter Boshier found the council had acted unreasonably, and in some respects unlawfully, in withholding for five months a report sought by RNZ.
The report, commissioned by Mayor Phil Goff, had examined the merits of the imported vehicle trade continuing through the city’s port”

“Goff had publicly opposed the trade continuing to occupy waterfront wharves, but the NZIER report found losing the business could cost the city’s economy $1 billion”.

This has next to zero chance of passing; it’s optics for their base. Jordan has his sauna issues and McCarthy is jockeying for speaker. And it’s another blatant effort by the GOP to undermine and obstruct the special counsel investigation as it circles around trump.

Alan Wilkinson

Joe Bloggs

The point of the GOP impeachment is not to get to the bottom of anything in particular, the point is muddy the water, create confusion, and false equivalencies… exactly like you just did.

if trump has nothing to hide then throw the books open and settle it once and for all time.

Clearly he has lots to hide. Like secret payments to his many mistresses made through shell companies set up by Mickey Medallions. And the details of his secret talks with his Russian Mistress. And how moving from tariffs to bailouts makes any sense.

trump, the GOP, and the Meadows/Jordan/McCarthy impeachment is both bad faith and ethically bankrupt.

lurcher1948

Corky

Time for Lefties to face the ‘RIGHT’ philosophy, Lurchy. Let’s hope those unkept feral hucksters also know as snowflakes are taught a lesson they will be along time forgetting.
That’s if our politically correct police realise they are to apply the law minus any political interpretations.

Joe Bloggs

lurcher1948

lurcher1948

I was listening to Andrew Dickens on the rightwing NZME ZB, and this rather nasty piece of work(possible)employer saying”i will never employ a woman below 50 again” due to the family violence act then your thoughts think of a knuckle dragging caveman boss, paying minimum wage, who buys a new BMW every year and his female employees have to put up with his jokes and rubbing against them getting his cheap cup of coffee.
The right wing boss where crybabies were invented and BMW salesman know as stupid suckers

Gezza

Julie Anne Genter unveiled government plan to close the Public Service gender pay gap and require that 50% of appointees to the top 3 levels in Government Departments must be women, and it sounded like staffing is supposed to become 50-50 male & female already.

1. Ok, so this sounds like it discriminates against non-cisgendered staff already.

2. When the item featured on 1ewes at six the announcer said that the pay increases MUST be made from within existing Departmental budgets. That, in my working experience in the PS, means there will have to be cuts in services, and/or cuts in staffing, and/or increases in individual staff workloads.

3. They also noted that some departments such as Pacific Island Affairs & Women’s Affairs are predominantly female employees. How is this going to work? Are departments with mostly a female workforce going to be required to hire more men? What happene if men don’t want to work in these departments or occupations?

In the last department I worked in, there was actually a reasonably good gender balance the whole time and several top level managers were female. At various times there were actually slightly more female than male employees, we even had two transexuals & one transvestite.

I have no problem with equal pay for public servsnts doing the same job, so long as any performance bonuses on top of pay rates operate on performance, not gender. To the best of my knowledge, in my former department pay exactly was the same for all staff, male or female, doing the same job, so little will change there – unless that situation has changed in the 10 years since I left.